Time Space Map

So, I think this is a awesome map...
This map links pictures, videos, and new stories throughout inauguration day with the location and time of where they occurred. Washington Post has dubbed it a 'Time Space Map,' and it allows you to navigate through the day by sliding a bar at the bottom to see what was happening at each hour. The inauguration version also shows where Barack Obama was at each hour. The Post has also produced time space maps from election day and a daily version for world events.

Final Project

For more information:

• USPTO Online Database: used to collect the data on patents and their corresponding invention and assignment states.
  
• US Census Regions Map: provides a simple map of how the US Census regions are divided.
• USPTO General Information Concerning Patents: Answers basic questions about patents including defining patent assignment, patent laws, and how patents are awarded.
  
• An Introduction to the Law and Economics of Intellectual Property: an article in the Journal of Economic Perspectives, which offers a good overview to how the patenting system promotes innovation.
  
• The Geographic Sources of Innovation: an article by Richard Florida from the Annals of American Geographers which, in part, details why innovation is important and what factors promote a successful innovative economy.
  

Lab 10

Lab 9: Web vs. Print

Here's the image for my Lab 9 map. In printing at home on a color jet the colors came out great, except for the fact it created a couple of arbitrary lines that split the color in the background. There was a line at the bottom, on one side a darker shade of the green and on the other a lighter. In my AI document there was nothing that I could find to explain this. I think that the darker color was the actual fill of my background. Aside from that, the printed copy looked great--actually, I was very surprised that they came out as I had envisioned and as the digital copy looked. I was very happy with the color ramping--I choosing the colors I did because I wanted to not only make the larger percentages stand out, but also the lower values, because they are just as significant within my data set. I also printed out the image in the lab using the color laser jet printer, in which the colors came out dramatically different. They were much, much darker and muted than they are in the digital copy giving the map an entirely different feel.

Housing in MD

Here's my image for Lab 8:

Choropleth Maps & Classification Schemes

Here are my two choropleth maps: one classified into quintiles, the other equal interval. Unfortuetly, visually there didn't seem to be much of a difference in these two classification schemes, and I presumed there would be. Looking at the raw data, the second lowest class in equal interval has 4 more states in this than quintiles. If the data had been more varied this would make a large difference; sending states into other classes, and changing the overall visual appearance of the map. If I had chosen 3 or 4 classification schemes instead I think that the difference in the two schemes would have been more apparent. In retrospect, I would have choosen a fewer number of classes.

Choropleth Maps

This is a map I found on CNN, showing how much fundraising was done in each state throughout the country in the 2008 Presidential Election and Primaries. I thought it was neat because you can also look at each county in each state and sort by every candidate to see exactly how much was raised. Not only is it a great example of a choropleth map, but also a great interactive map that allows you to store and show a large amount of data. Check out the site where I found this map to see the full extent: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/map/